Motivational Quotes

Success

Failure has no friends.

- Kennedy, John F.

Best Quotes about Success

I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high.

Wilbur Wright

Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

Wilson, Sloan

Too often the shortcut, the line of least resistance, is responsible for evanescent and unsatisfactory success.

Binstock, Louis

You don't have to stay up nights to succeed; you have to stay awake days.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.

Ruskin, John

To try is all. It matters not if one succeeds or fails outwardly.

Thibodeau, Robert

Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

Wooden, John

Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success.

Johnson, Pete

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Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

Marden, Orison Swett

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My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.

Carson, Johnny

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The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.

Jean Giraudoux

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Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.

Coffin, Harold

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Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau

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That's what building a body of work is all about. It's about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small that add up over time, over a lifetime to a lasting legacy. It's about not being satisfied with the latest achievement, the latest gold star, because the one thing I know about a body of work is that it's never finished. It's cumulative. It deepens and expands with each day you give your best. You may have setbacks and you may have failures, but you're not done. You haven't even started.

Barack Obama

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He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

McEnroe, John

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Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.

Wooden, John

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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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The largest barrier to success is removing the mattress from one's back in the morning.

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Success with money, family, relationships, health, and careers is the ability to reach your personal objectives in the shortest time, with the least effort and with the fewest mistakes. The goals you set for yourself and the strategies you choose become your blueprint or plan. Strategies are like recipes: choose the right ingredients, mix them in the correct proportions, and you will always produce the same predictable results: in this case financial success. The success strategies for managing money and building wealth are called Money Strategies. By learning to use money strategies as a part of your day-to-day life, financial frustration and failure will become a thing of the past.

Givens, Charles J.

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The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

Irving Berlin

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We don't need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.

Mike Ditka

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I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That's dedication.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

Backus, Jim

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Success and suffering are vitally and organically linked. If you succeed without suffering, it is because someone suffered for you; if you suffer without succeeding, it is in order that someone else may succeed after you.

Judson, Edward

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The trouble comes when we try to fashion our success to the outside world's specifications even though these are not the specifications drawn up in our own hearts. For whom are we succeeding, for ourselves or for somebody else? Success, if it is to be mea

Whitman, Howard

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Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?

Robbins, Anthony

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You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.

Meryl Streep

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You're probably on the right track if you feel like a sidewalk worm during a rainstorm.

Larry Page

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To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

Gerry Spence

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Having been here before and lost, to be here and win, I've got to tell you, winning is really a lot better than losing. Really a lot better.

Kate Winslet

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The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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When I am delivering my very best, then that is when I feel successful.

Fettig, Art

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Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to create an earthly paradise. Who could expect that? But, if you make life ever so little better, you will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been worthwhile.

Toynbee, Arnold

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The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Buck, Pearl S.

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What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Bob Dylan

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You can never have real success till you meet the real person -- YOU.

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It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Aristotle

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Success is no exclusive club. It is open to each individual who has the courage to choose his own goal and go after it. It is from this forward motion that human growth springs, and out of it comes the human essence known as character.

Whitman, Howard

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A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Dylan, Bob

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As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.

Billings, Josh

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Opportunities? They are all around us... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.

Marden, Orison Swett

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If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds!

Meryl Streep

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Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world.

Bok, Edward William

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Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man.

Franklin, Benjamin